
About Dina
Dr. Dina Najjar joined ICARDA in 2014 as a social and gender specialist. A socio-cultural anthropologist by training, she focuses on the link between gender equality and policies; agricultural technologies and delivery systems; rural employment and migration; adaption to climate change; and productive assets, including access to land and ownership, in the Middle East and North Africa.
Her geographical expertise includes Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Sudan. She has also conducted research in Uzbekistan, Kenya, Ethiopia, and India. Dr. Najjar is fluent in Arabic and proficient in French and Swahili. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Dina Najjar's Publications

She Inherits, She Sells: community-based theatre to strengthen women’s land rights and entrepreneurship
May 08, 2025
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Transforming land rights, improving rural livelihoods, andcarving just responses to the climate crisis
May 08, 2025
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The status of gender and development programming in Jordan: still “adding women and stirring?”
April 28, 2025
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Trait preferences and lentil varietal adoption in central Ethiopia: A multistakeholder approach
April 02, 2025
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The Capacity of a Household Farming System with Women’s Decision and Action-Making Power: Rural Marginal Areas in Morocco
January 31, 2025
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Beer, barley, livestock, milk: Who adopts agricultural innovations in rural Rajasthan?
November 23, 2024
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Fostering an enabling environment for equality and empowerment in agri-food systems: An assessment at multiple scales
March 01, 2024
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“Even the goats feel the heat:” gender, livestock rearing, rangeland cultivation, and climate change adaptation in Tunisia
September 05, 2023
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Challenging structures: gender transformative interventions by livestock CRP in Ethiopia
September 04, 2023
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Can a cash crop be a women’s crop?: Examining gender norms, relations and equity around lentil commercialization in Ethiopia
August 17, 2023
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Small ruminant value chain and empowerment: a gendered baseline study from Ethiopia
July 03, 2023
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Pathways to Empowerment: Case Studies of Positive Deviances in Gender Relations in Ethiopia
September 26, 2022
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Feminization, rural transformation, and wheat systems in post-soviet Uzbekistan
April 04, 2022
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“Dear brother farmer”: Gender, agriculture and digital extension in rural Tunisia during the COVID-19 pandemic
March 31, 2022
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Livestock Innovations, Social Norms, and Women’s Empowerment in the Global South
March 22, 2022
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A review of the effects of migration on the feminization of agrarian dryland economies
December 07, 2020
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Community typology framed by normative climate for agricultural innovation, empowerment, and poverty reduction
September 30, 2018
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Gendered aspirations and occupations among rural youth, in agriculture and beyond: A cross-regional perspective
September 30, 2018
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What drives capacity to innovate? Insights from women and men small-scale farmers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
September 30, 2018
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